Drug-checking services at sites in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee have been proposed since last summer as part of a pilot ...

Rising numbers of drug deaths and overdoses are being linked to lab-made synthetic opioids like fentanyl - up to 50 times ...

Discover how Pennsylvania is tackling the rise of nitazenes with bold actions to protect residents from powerful synthetic ...

The temporary scheduling is valid for two years under state law, while the Department of Health works to make the ...

HISD students are drinking and smoking less than they were a decade ago. But the use of prescription and illicit medications, ...

Researchers at the University of Manchester found that volatile compounds in skin sebum may reveal Parkinson’s disease years ...

A powerful and little-known synthetic opioid called nitazene is fuelling a deadly drug crisis across the three Baltic States, with Estonia reporting a threefold rise in overdose deaths in recent years ...

The Pennsylvania health department has confirmed at least 50 fatal overdoses associated with nitazenes since 2020, with a ...

A powerful synthetic opioid, nitazenes, is the main reason why the number of drug overdoses in Estonia has tripled in recent ...

The widespread spread of nitazenes, a powerful synthetic opioid, has largely been behind a tripling in the number of drug ...

Pennsylvania wants to continue categorizing a class of powerful synthetic opioids as Schedule I controlled substances to allow state prosecutors to charge suppliers as use rises. Nitazenes are up to ...

Those in charge of the police could easily give their officers the option to carry naloxone, writes Cranstoun's Meg Jones.